To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Success is the reward for toil.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Silence gives the proper grace to women